Ladytron

In pop folklore, bands were allowed three LPs to become themselves, yet the fabled third album is an increasing rarity in this low attention span epoch. So it comes as a bit of a rare treat to find that Liverpool-based boy / girl four-piece Ladytron have reached this mythical milestone with 'Witching Hour', their best album yet, and one that still fizzes and sparks with the band�s own idiosyncratic charms. Yet 'Witching Hour' is an album that reaches further than it�s predecessors; warm and dense, there is a feeling of susceptible magic wrapped within it�s thirteen tracks - Ladytron have finally been allowed the grace to become themselves. It�s the first to give a truly rounded insight into what Helen Marnie, Mira Aroyo, Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu, are all about. They can still make music starched and synthetic, cool and collected, but, unlike it�s predecessors '604' and 'Light & Magic', at its core 'Witching Hour' is wild and unstable; a synth-pop record which rages with a new unbridled energy. Their critically lauded 2001 debut '604' album spawned a glut of imitators obsessing over vintage synths and asymmetric haircuts, yet Ladytron always stood apart, less con... more...